I
am a secondary school principal, currently
undertaking a research project on web 2.0 learning
tools at the NSW Department of Education and
Training’s Centre for Learning Innovation.
I am exploring the use of web 2.0
applications in teaching and learning in secondary
education. Tools for social networking and social
bookmarking for classroom use are of particular
interest. Issues of online collaboration and issues
of privacy and safety for students are of great
concern.
Elaine's Top 10 Tools as at
18 March 2008
My personalised
igoogle page is my start page. I have
almost everything I need connected to this
page. It seems that there is something new
from google each week that enhances my web
2.0 experience.
Google reader is an absolutely
phenomenal aggregator. This is another of my
main source of web 2.0 updates daily. I use
the same search terms for each of the tools
I use, only expanding them as new concepts
and tools appear out of the “blue sky”
Google alerts into my email box each
day, provides me with links to articles,
blog posts and so on according to my search
terms. I have set up about 5 alerts and it
is very manageable.
My
slideshare space and groups are also a
fundamental part of my research and
networking. This site is for sharing
powerpoint slideshows and much more. It is
used by a number of web gurus across the
world and for this reason alone is worth the
time. I enjoy receiving posts from users and
seeing the number of users my groups’
attract increase.
My
del.icio.us space is posted numerous
times each day. I have found tools that link
del.icio.us to some of my other favourites
and this I hope will be very useful.
My
wikispace wiki has been a wonderful tool
to collect and collate my many valuable web
finds. The page set up allows the visitor to
explore my finds and web 2.0 learning
journey.
I have set up a blog using
Blogger and use this as an occasional
reflection tool. I am enjoying linking
other tools to my blog.
I enjoy creating
Powerpoint slideshows for presentations
and sharing them on Slideshare. It is
important for me to give back to this
brilliant resource.
I wouldn’t go very far in cyberspace without
a browser. I am enjoying using
Firefox at
the moment.
I use a little tool on my Mac called
Snapz to snap little pictures out of web
pages and other documents. This is the best
way to create graphics for presentations.
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